Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-06-09
THE Maryland Knights meet in State
Convention on June "a at Baltimore.
Industrial and Labor Notes.

Industrial and Labor notes.
The English are doing pvnI0 supvrio-
work in steel crank shafting- ona shaft
has Just been turned out which weighs
sixiy-six tons. steel bars are turned out
in English steel works which bear tensible
strain Of twenty eight to sixty five tons per
square inch. They make forged steel
which stands a strain of from twenty EIGHT
10 eighty y-seven tons per square inch.
NATURAL gas has closed down all the
coal mines around Johnstown, Pa, and has
caused a sudden collapse Of values in such
coal properties, whose owners have for
years been marking up the NOMINAL values.
The Cambria Company has extensive coal
leases which are now comparatively value
less.
The Chinese Government has ordered
from Birmingham (EnRland) firm ninety
noiseless automatic presses, VIII ch have
capacity of coming 2, zoe, 900 pieces per day
of ten hours. They are to be ready in one
year. The Royal Mint of London has six
teen of the same kind.
TIE development of rich coal-beds in
the FIR Northwest threatens 10 reyolutionize
the mining industry. One vein six feet
thick has been found. There is great
boom in mining operations, and milling
machinery makers are in receipt OF large
orders for quick delivery.
EVERY largo manufacturing center in
| France has technical educational estab-
| lishment Five hundred scholarships have
| been established at an annual Government
expense of $l50,oO0. Germany is far
| ahead of France in the matter OF technical
| education.
THE two great copper producing COM
| panies in the Northwest are greatly fncreas-
ing their capacity. The capital OF the Ana
conda has been increased 10 $40, ,OOO, 900,
and the Calumet and Hecla has increased
its output capacity thirty per cent.
SILVER and gold mining is attracting
more capital. The silver production has
increased in the ratio of $50 in 1880 to $51
in 1886. Silver production has increased
throughout tho world from S62, ,OOO,OOO IN
1872 to 1924 200, 900 in 1886.
THREE Ontario weavers have invented a
process for weaving cloths of mixed ma
terials so that they shall be inseparably
woven, showing one surface of hemp or
jute, and the other of cotton or wool.
At meeting of the United Labor party
of Denver q resolution was passed to buy
tents and camp out altogether on account
Of the 20 per cent. advance in rents without
corresponding advance IN wages.
+, SrEELMAKERs are busy in foreign coun-
tries and ironmakers are finding less and
less 10 do. The discharged workmen are
seeking for work, and see no remedy but
in otter and unfamiliar employment.
GREAT interest is shown by the wage-
workers of Indiana in the United Labor
party. Eighty counties in Ohio have been
organized, and Gen. Weaver is making Q
tour of the State.
Contracts have been placed for two
steamboats, for Lake Chautauqua. They
arc to have guaranteed speed of twenty
two miles an hour The work will be done
at the Cleveland Rolling Mills.
A BUILDING and loan association estab.
lished in Milwaukee, with a capital Of $5,.
000, 1000, to build power for mechanics anC
laborers. Capital Is being attracted in tha
direction.
THE people Of Buffalo expect soon Z.
have supply of gas for domestic pur
poses.
THE success Of the Western building
and loan associations has led to much NOR
building of small houses than would hav'
been possible without that system of NUT
ual banking.
APARTY of English capitalists have mad
extensive mineral investments near Cum
berlaud Gap, KY, with view TO coal de
velopment and the building Of iron works
ALL manufacturing firms and corpora
tions using scrip in Pennsylvania mus
hereafter file returns showing the amount o
scrip issued, and pay 10 per cent. ia
OIL it.
The New Englond house-builders ar
making no effort to advance wages. Rm
ployers are putting up great many smal
houses, which they will sell on easy terms
TIE Western miners expect to ro-estab
lish satisfactory rates of wages, althoug
the temporary dullness In tho market
makes employers less willing and anxious
OUT of the 5000 strikers during Ma
10000 were In the building trades, 13, 90
coke makers, and 800 stove molders.
A GREAT many new enterprises will b
heard of during the summer IL favorabl
! traS" and industrial conditions shall con
tinuv.
Tool works and foundries and machin
shops are sprinRing mp rapidly in IN
South, and Northern skilled labor is in de
mand.
| As MANY new lk-manufacturing finn
are springing mp In Paterson as are goin
out Of IL.
; SOUTHERN cotton mills are paying fror
! 10 10 20 per cent. dividends.
THE German bartenders talk Of formin
' o national union.